Today I needed to contact UPS Online Tools support because a client just got their rates dropped, and the change is not reflected in our rates and service selection. I tried to describe the problem and question as succinctly as I could, since it said this:

3. Please provide as much detail as possible regarding your request or question including text and/or numbers of any error messages that may appear.: (255 characters maximum)

I must have spent an hour coming up with this:

HowCanIProvdeDetailWit255CharMax? SorryIfMakeNoSens:Client upgrd 2 dalyPckupRate+say rateDrop snce lastYear.Use his dvlpr+accessKey 2 calc shpChrg, but 0 dif in rateReturn. Sys set to use hisRate, or just defaultRate? What can do 2 no ovrchrg his cstmr?

Is it understandable?

I just wanted to write "You've got to be *$^#ing kidding me, right? I've just wasted this much time trying to cram this down into 250 characters, when, if I could just explain it, you could do your job a lot easier."

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Update: I just wanted to say I am a complete moron. It was a setting in the XML I sent to UPS that was the culprit. And I swear I looked it up and down and didn't see it, until finally one of their level 3 support people pointed it out. My apologies to the UPS tech support whose time I wasted!

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I have a question that does not exist in your base of answers , can't I please talk to a real person who can steer me in the right direction, all i want to do is give UPS all my business. Who knows I might someday be one of your largest customers and no one will talk to me. This doesn't compute to me at all.

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